➳ཉིཾ𝒟𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝒮𝓁𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇༄↝ᴷⁱᵐᵉᵗˢᵘ ⁿᵒ ᵞᵃⁱᵇᵃ ༄°❅

Chapter 4

After a few moves, Akari was sure the fire pillar was no match for the basketball Akaza.

"Your left eye is smashed, your ribs are broken, and your organs are wounded, You can't recover from this anymore," Akaza says in his stupid whiny voice and Akari cringes.

"I will fulfil my duties!" the fire pillar says "I won't let anybody die here!" Akari feels a sense of humbleness in his words and decides to help him defeat that stupid basketball Akaza.

After a few more moves, she sees Akaza punch through the fire pillar's stomach, and she has enough, she wasn't letting a stupid basketball kill a super hot guy who has potential.

"That's enough basketball." She hisses and slaps him across the field. She pauses time and starts to stare into the fire pillar's eyes. "Hello there! You look like you need some help, I'm Akari and I'm going to help you recover." She smiles and stares into his very red irises. He opens his mouth but his wound is deep and can't speak.

"Gimme a sec." She grabs out a pocket knife and the fire pillar flinches. "Don't worry it's not for you, you're too pretty for me to kill." She cuts off her left eye and places it on his. She cuts her stomach and places it in a huge hole. Then she softly gives him the cup of mint water, he gulps it down, and immediately he starts smiling, but his eyes are still wary.

"Why are you helping me, Akari San?" he asks, after giving her back the cup.

"Oh, because Akaza is a stupid baka, and looks like a basketball!" she exclaims, and the fire pillar breaks into a laugh.

"This mint medicine will make you stronger and beat that idiot, I want his head gone."

"Arigato Akari San! My name is Kyojuro Rengoku." he smiles and winks. Akari smiles, unpauses times and flies away, disappearing in the mist. Kyojuro stared at the disappearing figure and stood up, feeling a surge of power coming from the parts that just got destroyed, he smiled and murmured to himself "I'll take care of the basketball for you Akari San." And took off.

Akaza looked in horror as Kyojuro rose back, his face was with flame marks and was grinning. Tanjiro crying, screamed in shock when he saw the fire pillar standing.

"Who said that anyone's going to die here?" he says in a low but intense voice. Akaza stared at the sun and narrowed his eyes, he jumped on top of the carriage and growled

"Sayonara, but I will get you later.", suddenly Akari appeared, and whispered some words, and Akaza immediately looked traumatized.

Kyojuro looked carefully and Akari smiled evily and Akaza dashed off. Kyojuro chuckled.
"She has a way with demons that traumatizes them." He dashed to look at Tanjiro, and his gang's wounds, fortunately not too deep and will heal if given time. Tanjiro was staring at him disbelievingly and was panting. He opened his mouth then closed it, and tried again.

"I- I- saw you g-get punched I thought I lost you . . ." Before he could stop himself tears started pouring out of his eyes and he sobbed loudly. Kyojuro embraced the weeping Tanjrio.

"I'll never leave you unless it's my fate," he whispers in Tanjiro's ear.

Tanjiro nodded and wiped the tears from his face, although Kyojuro's words didn't make him feel any better, he knew that he had to believe that Kengoku should survive and die from old age. Not should, will. Tanjiro bit his gums in approval of this thought and narrowed his eyes.

"I will defend Kyojuro, and I will make sure he won't die because he is super nice and deserves it." He nods and sets off to find the other five. Thankfully none of them had too severe wounds, by the looks of it a few weeks of training would get their stamina back. Like Tanjiro said, weeks of training and the three little helpers sitting on them while pushing up.

Sabito narrowed his eyes and panted, he was still busy thinking about Kyojuro, who got punched in the solar plexus, and somehow revived in a blink of an eye, This was not 'luck', it was a demon behind it. "The same demons who saved us, and healed Tanjiro . . ." He narrowed his eyes again, and Tanjiro noticed very quickly. "Sabito San, are you okay?" he says in a worried tone. "Hai! I'm fine, I'm just analyzing what we could do better from the last fight." he lied, quickly. Tanjiro sniffed the air and narrowed his eyes. "It's the guilt I'm smelling, Sabito must've lied to me."

Tanjiro opened his mouth to ask for more information but closed it when he saw black bags under Sabito's eyes. "This guy must've lost sleep because of this cause, better not make him more scared." Tanjiro smiled and forced himself to nod "Et to, it's a good battle strategy!" Sabito relaxed physically relaxed a little bit and showed Tanjiro a small smile.

"Hai, it's good to review because, et to, last fight was too close, we almost lost Kyojuro san," Tanjiro says continuing his speech and seeing Sabito flinch a little bit when he mentioned Kyojuro.

Before Tanjiro wanted to ask what was going on, a loud commotion came from the outside, and Sabito ran outside to check it out. Clearly showing he was in no mood to share his thoughts. Tanjiro sighed and nodded to the other four and they ran in the direction that Sabito ran, to check out what the commotion was outside. He saw Sabito arguing with Tengen San and asked Sabito what was going on. "Aoi Sama is getting kidnapped!" One of the girls screams. "It's called kidnapping!" They all scream at once.

Tanjiro leapt up and charged towards Uzui San and prepared himself for a headbutt. Uzui, in astonishing speed, leapt up on top of the roof and smirked. "You fool, I was former shinobi, Uzui Tengen Sama." he snarled. After some arguing Sabito facepalmed and shook his head. "We'll go in place of Aoi san!" Tanjiro finally exclaims, and the deal is on.

Uzui san led us to the Red Light district where he claimed to have demons gave them a makeover and made them into 'girls' to spy on where the demons were. On a distant rooftop, Akari narrowed her eyes, and flew into the forest, in the shade of the trees, she waved her arms around and feathers engulfed her and she turned into a ginger cat.

The ginger cat bounded towards the Hashira headquarters straight into Kyojuro's room and meowed quietly, never the less Kyojuro still heard his door, open and peered.

"Hello, little guy!" He says affectionately but loudly "Are you okay? Looks like you had a rush trip! Come in!" Akari-the-cat meowed a thank you and ran straight in and settled in Kyojuro's messy bed. Akari narrowed her eyes and started pressing his bed into a tidy way. "Looks like you're a tidy one!" He exclaims loudly and Akari tries her best not to cringe, but then she has a sudden thought.